Blu-ray Review: Private Benjamin
A twenty-eight-year-old Jewish woman from a wealthy family, all Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) wants is a big house, nice clothes, two closets, a live-in maid, and a “professional man” for a husband. She seems to have it all, after her wedding to successful man Yale Goodman (Albert Brooks). Making love on the bathroom floor of […]
Blu-ray Review: Warning Shot (1967)
On a foggy night in Los Angeles there’s a psycho killer on the loose. Tom Valens (David Janssen) and Ed Musson (Keenan Wynn) are on stakeout duty at the Seaside Apartments, in Brentwood, after someone reported seeing a prowler on the premises. Valens sees a mysterious man running from the apartment. After identifying himself as […]
Blu-ray Review: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Criterion Collection)
The anti-007 Bond movie, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was one of the first to present espionage as something less than honorable and far from glamorous. Based on the John Le Carré novel—Le Carré is a former intelligence officer—casts Richard Burton as the tired, but determined Alec Leamas, a longtime field operative […]